REVIEWS - Applied Triple Clamp

When you get this clamp from Applied, the first thing you notice is that this clamp is solid. There is nothing flimsy about it. All the corners are machined smooth and the detail looks good and as with most Applied Parts the cost was reasonable. I couldn't wait to get this puppy on my bike!

But that's where my love for this product began to fall off. I got my other clamp off and set this one in it's place. The frame bolt was easy to put on, the fork bolts were not so easy! Applied inset the fork bolts just enough that you can't really get a socket wrench in there to tighten them! So, I tried another approach, I took the clamp off again and used an allen wrench to take the upper part of the clamp off so I could get to the fork bolts to tighten them. Back we go to the bike, again the frame bolt was easy and now the fork bolts were easy to tight down since there was nothing blocking my socket wrench.

Now to put the top part of the clamp back on. Here's where I ran into more trouble. Trying to get an Allen wrench in under the clamp and between everything else was a major pain! There's just not enough room there either to really get the bolts tightened without having to make a lot of small cranks. It seemed like it took me forever to get those bolts tightened.

The good part is, once I got this sucker on and my bars tightened in. I felt pretty sure this clamp was not going to bend or fail on me. To prove it, I went right out and crashed on 'em a couple times. No problems. So, although I feel pretty confident in using these clamps, putting them on is so much of a pain, I will never want to take them off again unless I am switching to something else.

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